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Periodical: Annales Theosophiques

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Annales Theosophiques.
1908-1916? Quarterly
Paris, France. Language: French. Editor: Gaston Revel, founder and editor.
1/1, March 1909-1916(?)

The last surviving issue is April-June 1914, but the journal was still being advertised in Lotus Bleu in August 1916. Gaston Revel founded and edited this and other small Theosophical journals, and also edited La Revue Theosophique / Le Lotus Bleu from 1914 to 1919. BNF; Societe Theosophique de France.

Other Sources:
Issues:Annales Theosophiques 1Tri 1908
Annales Theosophiques 2Tri 1908
Annales Theosophiques 3Tri 1908
Annales Theosophiques 4Tri 1908
Annales Theosophiques 2Tri 1909
Annales Theosophiques 3Tri 1909
Annales Theosophiques 4Tri 1909
Claude-Generated Themes:   Annales Théosophiques was the French Theosophical review of the Blavatsky lineage, issued in quarterly volumes around 1908 and 1909. Its work is doctrinal and comparative: karma and the succession of incarnations, the constitution of consciousness, initiation, and the reading of Eastern esoteric texts such as those of Subba Row, with Kabbalistic material drawn in as another facet of what the review took to be a single ancient wisdom. A characteristic article sets the Vedantic triad of Sat, Chit and Ananda beside the Christian Father, Word and Spirit, and warns the reader not to be misled by the ordinary Western formula that God is a pure spirit; another argues, in the Neoplatonic manner, that the Infinite cannot be looked at directly but only in the intellectual image we call an idea. The review also followed psychical research, reporting an eminent American's proofs of survival and the methods of the society he led. Spiritism it discusses at a doctrinal distance, distinguishing the Theosophical account of the after-death state from the seance room rather than reporting from it.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Reincarnation and Karma | Theosophy